Leader comment: A denunciation of Donald Trump — Sorry, we're having problems with our video player at the moment, but are working to fix it as soon as we can — Waiting for Video... Donald Trump, due to arrive in the UK later today, is a racist, a serial liar, and either a sex abuser …

Things will not be okay — Human beings often choose self-delusion over painful reality, and so in the days and weeks to come, we will hear reassurances that the NATO alliance is in good shape. After all, there have been spats in the past — over the Suez crisis in 1956, Vietnam in the 1960s and '70s …

Trump Fumed, but NATO Members Got What They Wanted — Think the NATO summit was a complete dumpster fire? Think again. — He ranted, he threatened, he rebuked. — U.S. President Donald Trump did just about everything he could to spoil the NATO summit in Brussels this week.

Kavanaugh Is a Mentor To Women — I can't think of a better judge for my own daughter's clerkship. — Judge Brett Kavanaugh's jurisprudence will appropriately be dissected in the months ahead. I'd like to speak to a less well-known side of the Supreme Court nominee: his role as a mentor for young lawyers, particularly women.

‘Kiss my you know what’: Schumer hamstrung in SCOTUS fight — The Democratic leader has little sway over the Democrats he needs the most. — Chuck Schumer says he's going to fight Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court with “everything I've got.” To do so, he'll need to get centrist Democrats to hold the line.

Russia's bloody World Cup — The 2018 World Cup is winding down with memorable play, but for FIFA itself, this was a preventable own goal. — FIFA's flagship tournament could have done something to relieve the worst human rights crisis in Russia since the Soviet era …

What Ben Bradlee Would Think of Donald Trump — My late husband would not have been impressed. Nor intimidated. He believed the truth mattered. — There is a big, white, two-story wall in the center of the newsroom at the Washington Post directly across from the glass-walled Ben Bradlee conference room.

GOP braces for Trump tariff pain — Congressional Republicans think President Trump's tariffs are going to hurt the economy, undoing some of their economic wins — but they're not ready to cross the president until their voters feel the pain. — Between the lines: While some Republicans …

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